Schools' choice: Kids or adults?

8:19 AM,
Jul. 14, 2014

Written by

Richard Whitmire

If you know anything about Boston you've heard of Roxbury, Dorchester and Mattapan, some of the city's toughest neighborhoods. That's where Brooke Charter Schools operates three K-8 schools. Despite that, Brooke students turn in startling results.

Just a quick sample: At its Mattapan school, which is two-thirds African-American, one-third Latino and largely poor, sixth-graders score at the highest proficiency rates in math in the state.

Ideally, Brooke founder Jon Clark would like to add another middle school and a high school for all his high-performing middle schoolers to attend. ...